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Originally Posted by taco.vidal
Whats the contract say?
Take the work from home aspect out of it. Assume she worked at the employers office and after a few days they couldn't figure out the problem and sent her home. As an hourly employee Im not sure the employer has an obligation to pay you. As a salaried employee, then they might have to pay. If its a small employer and they're having serious tech problems and not able to provide service to their clients then they might not be able to make payroll.
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In that case, the employer would need to pay you for coming in and the time until they decided to send you home. Depending on your employer, you might be even be entitled to a minimum amount of pay for coming in, for example if they bring you in for 15 minutes and send you home, if they just paid you that 15 minutes, that is pretty crappy. Especially if they tell you to keep coming in every day while it is broken, and sending you home right away after.
Think of it like this, say your job depends entirely upon you having a special stapler. One day your stapler jams up, and you can't unjam it. You spend hours trying to fix it, but since you only get paid while you are actually putting staples in, you don't get paid anything for what you are doing. To top it all off, you can't get the company to send you a new stapler or even be bothered to get someone on the phone to help you unjam it, unless you come into work 7 hours earlier than normal without getting paid. Then after a couple weeks of this, you find out that you are hardly getting a pay check at all, because they rejected your application for paid time off that is due to a tech issue.